Improvement in apparatus for heating vehicles



V A. c, GOOIDELL, Jr. 7 APPARATUS FOR HEATING VEHICLES.

No. 19Z,O67. A Patented June 19,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIcE.

ABNER c. GOODELL, JR., or SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING V EHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,067. dated June 19, 1877 application filed January 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER' O. GooDELL, Jr.,0f Salem, Essex county, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Apparatus for Heating Vehicles, of which thefollowing is a specification:

This invention relates to the heating of cars, omliibuses, and like vehicles; and relates to the combination therewith of a stovelamp, in such a manner that there shall be a very complete abstraction of the heat from the fuel, a complete combustion, acirculation of all the air of the vehicle past the heater-surfaces, and a control of the lampstove from the outside.

The seats of cars and omnibuses are usual- 1y made as a shelf, projecting from the side of the car and-held up in front by posts. Sometimes, as in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the Side below the seat of the vehicle is nearly perpendicular, as at a. Sometimes it is stronglydrawn in, as shown by the inwardly-curved lines at a in Fig. 4, in which case, it will be observed, there would be scant room for the stove between the side of the vehicle and the posts supporting the seats, or a line coincident with the same. I therefore form a boxing, is, upon the outside of the vehicle, below the seat, and connect it with the interior of the ve .icle to form a suitable compartment in which to set the lamp. Where the former is the case, a part of the concave is cut out, and a boxing, it, set in for the lamp, as shown in Fig. 4.

The vehicle being thus prepared, I take a lamp-stove of any of the usual. kinds and apply to it a fillingtube, b. A hole is cut in the side of the car, into which this fillingtube projects, and which is fitted with a. removable cap, 0. Through this hole the lamp can be filled, lighted, and extinguished from outside the car. 011. the inside of the car a corrugated iron, d, or other suitable screen, shields the front of the lamp.

The lamp is further protected by embedding in plaster or other suitable means, if desired, and is to be firmly fixed to the floor of the car. 4

Above the chimney of the lamp (shown at (1, Figs. 1 and 3) is a horizontal flue, c g, provided with a flange,;f, into which the chimney d enters. This flue is shown in plan, Fig. 2. It is hung close under the seat, and has a flanged projection, h, at its extremity, upon which the flue j fits, which carries 0E the products of combustion through the root.

The seat in this arrangement acts as a diaphragm to divert and create currents, .and a very thorough circulation is effected.

The whole value of the heat is obtained, owing to the length of the flue. The apparatus is lightand readily managed.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In combination with the seat of a vehicle, a lamp-stove, placed between the seat and the floor, provided with a filling-tube, I), and with longitudinal fines a g, hung near the seat, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination with the lamp -stove, placed between the seat and the floor of a vehicle, and provided with a filling-tube, b, the aperture through the side of the car surrounding said filling-tube b, and provided with the removable cap a, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In combination with a street-car or om nibus, a lamp-stove placed between the seat and the floor, flues e g and j, and screen 11, substantially as described.

4.. In combination with the body of a car or omnibus, a seat having heating-fines e g hung between it and the floor, a lamp also placed beneath it, and discharging its products of combustion into said fines, and a dischargingflue, j, communicating with the atmosphere, substantially as described.

5. In combination with the seat of a ve hicle, a lamp-stove, the boxing lc, projecting from the side of the vehicle and opening into the vehicle beneath the seat, and designed to partially surround the lamp-stove, substantially as and for the purpose described.

' ABNER G. GOODELIJ, JR. Witnesses:

WILLARD B. FERGUSON, F. F. RAYMOND, 2d. 

